Would anyone be against a "Rainbow Edition" of Pokemon Unbound?

[Tyrranux]

Y'know what actually grinds my gears about a lot of these hacks? Their rigid faithfulness to the source material.

• Only female Salandits can evolve.
• Meganium is the weakest Johto Starter because shut up.
• Dreepy is absolutely useless until you evolve it to Drakloak....at level 50.
• You need a specific Mega Stone for Mega Evolution which will often be way too out of the way to find and far too late game to be of significant use.
• Legendaries are locked to post game in games that don't have a New Game Plus feature.
• The bad guys just use the same pool of playable characters you can use with very few surprises. No non playable bosses exist.
• Unown exists.

Just little annoying ticks like that which can get under the skin during a playthrough. I get the desire for consistency between anything with the name Pokemon on it. But I mean we're already making illegal versions of Pokemon already, Unbound, Radical Red, Emerald Rogue, all unsanctioned illegal versions of Pokemon Emerald. So I'm wondering......would it be out of the question to take Unbound and uhhh.....Street Fighter II Rainbow Edition the hell out of it?

Not even changing the actual game or rending the entire Pokedex asunder, just....a few little tweaks here and there to make things more interesting? I mean I have to imagine I'm talking to a community that has long since grinded these mega popular hacks to dust as is, just as they did with Pokemon Emerald.

I mean I'm in HexManiacAdvanced right now and I'm looking at all those Unown slots that were put in.......it is so tempting to just drop a bunch of none playable crossover bosses to fight. Would be so easily to put an Omega Metroid in there to catch the player off guard in a particular Shadow Minion fight...

 

[rwbonesy]

do you have permission from the original dev to do this
and do you intend to do what you've done every time you've posted about romhacking on this board and others and insult people and tools

 

[Tyrranux]

"Pokemon" is the intellectual property of Nintendo and The Pokemon Company and despite all the steps taken to ensure rom hackers are not literally breaking the law, including being none profit and using IPS', it is still within their legal right to put out cease and desists in regards to protecting their easy to lose trademark. So by pure circumstance, the developer of Pokemon Unbound and every other rom hacker here is indeed making Pokemon games without Nintendo's permission or blessing.

But all the same, I'll take your response as a no and abandon the notion. Good day.

 

[Corveone]

I don't understand what you would want to achieve with such "Rainbow edition"...

Or what's the problem with more faithful rom hacks. Some people like rom hacks where Pokémon stick close to vanilla, with only minimal or no changes at all, since that means they don't have to relearn everything everytime they play a new rom hack because half of the Pokédex have their typing and movesets changed.

Unbound isn't 100% in line with the official games, some Pokémon have small modifications like a better Ability or a couple extra moves, but nothing as drastic as the edits in other games such as Radical Red or Drayano's hacks.